Applebaum, Mark

Mark Applebaum was born in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois.

He is an American musician, composer, and Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Stanford University in California. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, San Diego. Before Stanford, he taught at UCSD, Mississippi State University, and Carleton College, Minnesota. As a jazz pianist, Applebaum has performed all over the world, including a solo recital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, sponsored by the American Embassy. In 1994, he received the Jazz Prize from the Southern California Jazz Society. Applebaum's solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electro-acoustic work has been performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. His music has been described as mercurial, highly detailed, disciplined, and exacting, with improvisational and whimsical aspects.